The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...
XR flew about 1.37 million miles (2.2M km) away from Earth. The space rock is estimated to be about 300-700 km (248-434 miles ...
Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...
An amature astronomer spotted a near Earth object and alerted authorities only to realize it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ...
NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.